Integrated Community Staff Nurse

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

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Job summary

Come and join our friendly, welcoming, and inclusive 0-19 team and share our ambition to make a fundamental difference in improving the health and wellbeing of children and their families in Tower Hamlets.

Main duties of the job

Working across the 0-19 service our staff nurses will require a positive attitude towards actively engaging with a diverse range of clients in our community. You will be able to participate in child health screening, including, weighing, measuring, vision and hearing, health promotion, clinical duty, school drop in/Healthy Child clinics and supporting parenting in a variety of environments including the family home, clinics, schools and Children’s centres as well as via digital means.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (the Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

  • Innovation and support for primary care
  • Being a great place to work
  • Integrating primary and community care
  • Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
  • Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Date posted

15 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,466 to £39,521 a year Includes HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0136-22-5817

Job locations

Island Health

145 East Ferry Road

London

E14 3BQ


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • To support the delivery of 0-19 Universal Services as well as the Healthy Child Programme.
  • To support and assist Community Nursery Nurses and skill mix teams as required.
  • To participate in the development of skill mix within the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
  • To participate in Health Education programmes and health promotion activities on a multi-disciplinary basis as agreed by the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
  • To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for safeguarding children.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • To support the delivery of 0-19 Universal Services as well as the Healthy Child Programme.
  • To support and assist Community Nursery Nurses and skill mix teams as required.
  • To participate in the development of skill mix within the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
  • To participate in Health Education programmes and health promotion activities on a multi-disciplinary basis as agreed by the 0-19 Universal Services Team.
  • To participate in strategy meetings, case conferences, providing reports as required and to have clinical and safeguarding supervision as per policy for safeguarding children.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Current NMC Registration.
  • Degree level.

Desirable

  • Evidence of other post registration education and training.
  • Evidence of personal development.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, willingness to develop.
  • Healthy Child Programme.
  • Understanding of Safeguarding.
  • Knowledge of Information and Clinical Governance.

Desirable

  • Infant Feeding and Healthy weight eg UNICEF standards.
  • Knowledge of Clinical Effectiveness programme eg Audit, research.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • IT awareness and IT Skills, including electronic Record management.
  • Good interpersonal and organisation skills.
  • Time management skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written and communication skills.
  • Have a flexible approach to team working, acknowledging own
  • limitations but working under delegation.
  • Adaptable to change/service transformation.

Other requirements

Essential

  • Willing to be flexible.

Experience

Essential

  • Commitment to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Able to deliver core service requirements.
  • Demonstrate a keen interest in public health and working in the community.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of Safeguarding Children.
  • Clear Commitment to undertake further training.
  • Having the ability to deal psychologically and emotionally with potentially distressing situations e.g. Bereavement and specific critical incidents.

Desirable

  • Relevant experience of working as a community nurse.
  • Demonstrate some post registration experience working with children or in the community or knowledge required to work with this group.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Current NMC Registration.
  • Degree level.

Desirable

  • Evidence of other post registration education and training.
  • Evidence of personal development.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development, willingness to develop.
  • Healthy Child Programme.
  • Understanding of Safeguarding.
  • Knowledge of Information and Clinical Governance.

Desirable

  • Infant Feeding and Healthy weight eg UNICEF standards.
  • Knowledge of Clinical Effectiveness programme eg Audit, research.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • IT awareness and IT Skills, including electronic Record management.
  • Good interpersonal and organisation skills.
  • Time management skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written and communication skills.
  • Have a flexible approach to team working, acknowledging own
  • limitations but working under delegation.
  • Adaptable to change/service transformation.

Other requirements

Essential

  • Willing to be flexible.

Experience

Essential

  • Commitment to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Able to deliver core service requirements.
  • Demonstrate a keen interest in public health and working in the community.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of Safeguarding Children.
  • Clear Commitment to undertake further training.
  • Having the ability to deal psychologically and emotionally with potentially distressing situations e.g. Bereavement and specific critical incidents.

Desirable

  • Relevant experience of working as a community nurse.
  • Demonstrate some post registration experience working with children or in the community or knowledge required to work with this group.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Island Health

145 East Ferry Road

London

E14 3BQ


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address

Island Health

145 East Ferry Road

London

E14 3BQ


Employer's website

https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Hamida Serdiwala-White

h.serdiwala@nhs.net

Date posted

15 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,466 to £39,521 a year Includes HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

E0136-22-5817

Job locations

Island Health

145 East Ferry Road

London

E14 3BQ


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